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"I don't want you to go."

Conor finally says out loud his truth. The fourth tale that the monster was speaking about throughout the book.

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"I did not come to heal her, I can to heal you"

The monster tells Conor why he came walking. Conor wasn't accepting the fact that his mother was dying, so the monster came walking to heal him and help him grieve.

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"I wish I had a hundred years, A hundred years I could give you."

Conor's mom knows that she isn't going to get better, she isn't going to be able to go back home with him. She says all she needs to say to him, before she can no longer form the words to do so.

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"But there are harder things than being invisible."

This quote implies that it is harder to be feared by people than invisible to them. This perfectly describes what happens after Conor beats up Harry, and the other students fear him and go out of their way to get away from him when possible.

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"I no longer see you."

This is an important moment for Conor, as it means that the 3 people who actually "saw" him and didn't treat him any differently just because of his mother's illness, would no longer "see " him. This was the breaking point for Conor, and he snapped.

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"What would be the point, Con? What could possibly be the point?"

Conor's dad doesn't punish him for destroying his grandmother's sitting room because something worse is going to happen.

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"He was greedy and rude and bitter, but he was still a healer. The parson, though, what was he? He was NOTHING. Belief is half of all healing. Belief in the cure, belief in the future that awaits. And here was a man who LIVED on belief, but who sacrificed it at the first challenge, right when he needed it most. He believed selfishly and fearfully. And it took the lives of his daughters."

The monster came walking to punish the parson for abandoning his beliefs. This is meant to teach Conor to continue to believe in a cure and not abandon it when things get harder.

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"Why did you come then? Why bother coming at all?"

Conor says this because his father has never really bothered to come visit him before his mom was sick, let alone call him. Conor doesn't see the point in his father coming regardless if his mother's sickness.

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She'll SEEM better tomorrow, but she won't be, Conor."

This piece of dialogue is foreshadowing of what is to happen later in the book.

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" You really aren't afraid are you?," " you will be, before the end."

This quote shows that Conor is more afraid of his truth than an actual monster.